A lot of recent work has dealt with improving performance of content searching in peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In this paper we attack this problem by modifying the overlay ...
This paper describes the results of a Wizard of Oz study of people's search behavior using BuddySystem, a proximitysensing system designed to help end-users locate people, pl...
Leila Takayama, Lawrence Leung, Xiaodong Jiang, Ja...
Exact phrase matching is a powerful tool to quickly retrieve results when a sufficient section of the text is accurately provided as the query. If the section of the text is not c...
Kathryn Patterson, Carolyn R. Watters, Michael A. ...
A number of problems in computer science can be solved efficiently with the so called memory based or kernel methods. Among this problems (relevant to the AI community) are multime...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...